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Ducky, it/its, 20s

currently reading: 少年之天地同悲 by 周木楠，雨霖铃 by minifish currently watching: 秋蝉

my interests: - 周木楠少年江湖系列 (少年歌行，暗河传，少年白马醉春风）(top favorite series ever) - 《一笑随歌》 (fated hearts) is excellent. IF THERE'S NO MORE FENG XIYANG FANS LEFT IN THE WORLD THEN THE DEMONS STOLE AND ATE MY SOUL. - cdrama genres i like: wuxia, imperial court politics/strategy, republican espionage, and select instances of actually good romance and that isn't abuse apologia - writing and a random collection of other interests

tags: - cdrama original posts typically tagged with english title - #ducky reviews - #ducky's art - #ducky's fic - #fanart - fanart reblogs - #fanfic - fanfic reblogs - #tboyweek26 - #art and #photography that i like - #dskrb - miscellanous reblogs - negative vibe tag if you want to filter: [#dsk rants], [#dashing youth critical] - 佳偶天成，琅琊榜，琅琊榜之风起长林，庆余年 1&2，雪中悍刀行，大奉打更人，水龙吟

Baixiao Hall - wiki for 周木楠少年江湖系列 universe

buried-in-stardust

Challenging a cat

[eng by me]

#cat pics

fouryearsofshades

All Wishes Come True!, a heist comedy fantasy inspired The Eight Immortals. They are seeking for a treasure that could save the world,

Also features everyone's favourite Sun Wukong.

#八仙!#heist heist heist

maninini-he

#长沙 #photography

inatungulates

Sichuan takin Budorcas tibetana tibetana

Observed by roylesafaris, CC BY-NC

#photography

riverwindphotography

Shade Garden, Bighorn National Forest, Wyoming

#photography

ask-games-from-a-weird-girl

Ask game about shows! :D

Send me one or several numbers and I'll answer:

The show I think I've rewatched the most

A show I loved when I was younger but upon rewatch it wasn't as good

A show I loved when I was younger and upon rewatch realized it was just as good, if not better

A show I watched thinking "hey, why didn't I watch this before?"

Quote something from any show, first one that pops into your head

A show I refuse to ever watch again

Which show do I wish had more seasons the most?

Which show do I think had too many seasons/episodes?

Any show I'm watching right now?

My favorite character in -insert show-?

My least favorite character in -insert show-?

Which show have I found myself engage in shipping the most?

A show where I did not care for any ships at all

Which show has the best fandom according to me?

Which show has the worst fandom according to me?

A show everyone else seemed to like and I just never watched?

Is there a show my mutual has talked about a lot that I now feel like I have some sort of second-hand knowledge of thanks to it?

My favorite episode of -insert show-?

My least favorite episode of -insert show-?

A show I cried a lot to watching it?

Is there a show I have seen but basically no one else I know has seen?

A headcanon/opinion about a show I didn't think about before but upon reading it I agree with it?

The most unpopular opinion I have about a show?

A character from a show I hate but the majority seems to like

A character from a show I love but the majority seems to hate

A ship from a show I hate but the majority seems to like

A ship from a show I love but the majority seems to hate

Favorite song that came from a show?

A show I for some reason disliked as a child but loves now?

If I had kids, is there any show I'd really like to show them?

The most insane take on a show I've ever seen?

A show I really recommend everyone to watch

A show I recommend no one to watch ever

Which show took the longest to watch through?

Which show took the fastest to watch through?

A show that I think got cancelled too soon?

Is there something (book series, spinoff, etc) I'd like to see as a tv show?

An upcoming show I'm excited to see

An upcoming season of a show I'm excited to see

Free question from the asker

#ask game #bc none of my post drafts are done yet lol but i want to yap

free-my-girl-tourney

i will be honest i am so torn about the m/m shipping thing. i see m/m shipping as a refuge from the misogyny perpetuated on women both in real life and in fiction, so i write a LOT of fanfiction for m/m ships. i sometimes write f/f or f/m side ships, or even main ships (i've written a lot of female dragon age characters, for example). i just write for m/m a lot more. writing f/f or f/m means reckoning with whatever misogyny they experience in their canons, like imagine being a fan of the women in The Pitt and wanting to make fanworks set in the canonverse but not having to deal with its misogyny. R-I-fucking-P, my condolences. and canon or not, writing f/m is even worse than f/f because tropes that aren't inherently unequal in a same-gender ship suddenly look a little different with the lens of real world gender based discrimination and violence put over them. fandom is my escape and my refuge, so i just plain don't want to reckon with the forces making my real life worse daily in every fic if i can avoid it. it would suck all the joy out of it.

having explained my reasoning, i still feel like a hypocrite. i have a lot of opinions about female characters and ships and the way they are so poorly treated, and i want better for female characters and female ships - but i rarely am the one to put my money where my mouth is and make stuff for them.

i don't know how to reconcile this. i'm sending this ask because i bet i'm not the only person struggling with this issue, and i wanted to support anyone else who feels the same way. loving female characters can be tough no matter how genuine.

look. no one is telling you not to write m/m fics if that's what you enjoy. this is fandom, it's for fun, and this blog is not about making people feel bad for things they like. with that said, i personally really don't agree with the argument that m/m is the only possible refuge from having to deal with misogyny.

writing about women doesn't have to be about misogyny if you don't want it to be. i mean you could make a similar argument that because m/m is about queer men, you necessarily have to deal with homophobia if you write yaoi. but a lot of people don't do that because it's fanfiction. you can write about whatever scenario you want and deal with whatever issues you're comfortable dealing with. you gave the pitt, as an example, right? write about mel and santos having crazy omegaverse sex after singing karaoke together; write an au where aliens exist and mohan and mckay go on a date in a spaceship (look we all have our crack ships, this one's mine, leave me be); write about dana missing collins so much that she moves to portland to be with her. get creative, go crazy. i just really dislike the idea that it's impossible to write women in a fun escapist way.

another issue i have with this idea is that often the male characters being shipped in popular m/m ships are themselves misogynistic. so, for example, the two most popular ships for the pitt, at least according to ao3 numbers, are robby/whitaker and robby/abbot. now robby is a character that i personally really like and enjoy, but i don't think there's any denying that he's sometimes casually misogynistic (and a little racist) in a condescending old liberal white guy way. so when you say writing m/m frees you from writing about misogyny, what do you do about robby or dean winchester or any other beloved male character who is pretty obviously misogynistic. do you only have to deal with misogyny if a character experiences it, but not if a character perpetuates it? i don't really get that logic.

also, i understand if you turn to fanfiction for escapism from real world issues, but speaking for myself, i sometimes like seeing characters deal with misogyny in fic. i think it can be pretty cathartic to see people actively confront the systemic ways they're mistreated. i totally understand that not everyone enjoys that sort of thing, but i must assume that at least some m/m shippers do actually enjoy it, because i know a lot of m/m fic does actually address how homophobia affects its characters. so if we can do that for homophobia, why can't we also do it for misogyny and racism and ableism and other kinds of bigotry?

again, i'm really not trying to call you out or anything, anon. like i said, if m/m is what you enjoy writing for, then the last thing i want is to make you feel bad about that. but i do think that there are plenty of ways to engage with f/f and f/m without having to deal with misogyny if you don't want to, in the same way that people write about m/m without really engaging with homophobia (or misogyny for that matter). and i kind of resent the idea that the presence of women in a story necessarily sucks the fun out of it.

certifiedlurker

You know I genuinely feel like the Hannibal show has done some irrevocable damage in fandom spaces that primarily discuss American media. Why is it that every violence on screen is now seen as inherently erotic, resisting or outright rejecting any further reflection on what such a scene may mean, even from a Doylist perspective? Like I truly feel that tumblr fandom spaces, which are dominated by american media and disproportionately consists of white Americans and Europeans, have become so blinded by the tag of "cannibalism as a form of love" that they forget there is a larger world out there where cannibalism was literally a facet of colonialism-> white British colonialists digging up mummies to ground them into powders to consume<-and thus will continue to dismiss every concern and insist that every such violence depicted in a TV show is inherently queer and erotic. I have seen this happen in Sinners fandom. How some fans managed to interpret Remmick's lust for owning/controlling Samie's soul as queer, when it was clearly about the colonial lust of gobbling up countries, cultures, societies in favor of building an empire, I won't know. But I think it's the same problem with IWTV fandom where brutalization of a Black body onscreen is seen as erotic just because the show is set up within a queer narrative. I don't know what these people mean about not watching "enough Hannibal"- I certainly have never watched it, but suppose in anyway if the Hannibal show was half so serious about setting up a narrative (and I am assuming it didn't cause then it wouldn't be this popular amongst white queers lol), where it spoke about how white western societies, which now tries to distance itself from the violence of colonialism it inflicted upon the world, while still flaunting its ill begotten wealth ( almost all white posh neighborhoods, expensive restaurants maintained via cheap labour, high end dinner scenes with ingredients imported at barely any cost and exotic fruits available all year round etc) cannot really get rid of those tremendous facets of violence and hence it turns it inwards and you have a white serial killer, colluding with the law/cops as a forensic psychiatrist ( in real life whom did the white serial killers target- why do so many black women, brown women and native american women end up missing with their cases getting buried and hushed up?). And what if in a later season it completely retcons all that, retcons all the hints and narrative about colonial violence suffered by black and brown bodies and instead absolves Hannibal of all his violence, then wouldn't that be shit? That same thing happened with IWTV. I don't why there is this obstinate refusal to accept that. Like literally people who tout media illiteracy behind such widespread backlash against TVL like that second screenshot, tell me exactly what conclusion do you draw from having two black bodies graphically brutalized on screen by a brown character who may or may not be a Muslim, who may or may not have had an oppressed caste identity- while the character who was canonically chosen for immortal life for his white skin, blonde hair and blue eyes and who throughout the season has flaunted his superior vampiric blood, gets to have just a little bit of pecking at the dinner table, even when in earlier seasons he had beat his spouse bloody and crossed an ocean to participate in a lynching.

ralfstrashcan

Bonus:

Four years and I nearly forgot what an icon Jingyan is

#STORMING THE PALACE AND THREATENING THE CROWN PRINCE TO SAVE MU NIHUANG FROM BEING RAPED IS CORRECT #瑯琊榜

black-sasuke

Can anyone help me eat today pregnant black woman currently really struggling with the day to day

$Hopesoda

Venmo: Hope-soda

PayPal: [email protected]

black-sasuke

Could use help still today is Monday I have a job interview on wed

black-sasuke

I’m really struggling still my will to live is at an all time low I have no support nothing going on and no motivation I appreciate all the help so far it’s July 16th words of encouragement are also welcome

barananduen-blog

CDRAMA POLL: PRIMARY REASON FOR WATCHING

This is about aspects that are intrinsic to the drama. So, not "for escapism" and other reasons that are related to your life.

FAQ: "Where's the nuance button?" A: There's no nuance / combination button. You have to choose ONE. :[ [*]

We pretty much know how it is on MyDramaList, but how is it on Tumblr?

Which is the primary reason you watch CDramas?

The romance / character relationship (includes bro/sismance, friendship, etc.)

I mostly just watch dramas that have my fav. actor/actress

The visuals (excludes the previous two)

The plot (excludes romantic or -ship plot)

[Results button / I don't watch cdramas]

Remaining time: 3 days 15 hours

[*] If you're nuance/combination, pick the most common one, or the most compelling for you, or the one you'd keep if you just HAD to lose the other. If, on the other hand, you have a different individual reason that is not combination/nuance, and that is intrinsic to the drama, then choose the Results button and add it in a reblog or a comment.

🔁If you're in cdrama-tumblr, please reblog to help get a bigger sample size! 🙏

#for plot，the rest of the reasons here are more secondary or tertiary to me #i tend to look for shows by looking through the lists of various actors but i usually choose by genre and premise #and while watching the show usually the plot gets most of my attention

rose-tinted-vision

do you have any favorite nonfiction book essay or articles?

Hi Ducky!! I hope you're having a good day?

I must say that I'm still relatively new to the world of essay writing haha... I only started getting into them this year through Andrea Long Chu's essay compilation titled Authority, of which these three really caught my attention: Hanya's Boys (this is more of a literary criticism, which i found interesting though I've never read the novel she was critiquing), On Liking Women, and Authority (the essay).

After which I've not yet read others, though these are on my to read: Susan Sontag's On Women, Andrea Dworkin's Life and Death and Pornography: Men Possessing Women, and your recommendation Bell Hook's Black Looks

I'm still slowly making my way through them because my tbr list is sky high oops (⁠｡⁠ﾉ⁠ω⁠＼⁠｡⁠) currently reading Short Stories by Susan Sontag, Water Moon by Samantha Sotto Yambao, and Silent Reading (Mo Du) by Priest

duckyskull

hi rose! my day is good i have good weather :) i hope you have good weather too ✨

LOL i also have a big tbr, on the feminist section includes Women, Race and Class by Angela Davis, Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde

so since you said you're new to reading essays, and i noticed the works and authors you mentioned are related to feminism, are you like looking to build a foundation or something like that? or are you already familiar with feminist writings?

like if it's the former, ok so when i looked up andrea dworkin i noticed that she was a r/adic/al f/emini/st (slashing it to try keep this out of searches sry) and a zionist and racist and i believe anti-sex worker and if the summaries i read were accurate um there's some misogyny going on too. so like if you're new to doing the reading on feminism and perhaps also more broadly to related subjects, i don't really think that dworkin seems to be a good starting place. like particularly i mean that i would be especially careful to read her critically. but if you've been exposed to and read before gender, race, history, etc etc this type of scholarship and this is part of your personal studies and you're reading her with & for context or smth then i rest my concern.